Dr. Dae-Kyung Kang is a Professor in the Department of Animal Resources Science, majoring in industrial microbiology and biotechnology at Dankook University. He received his Bachelor’s and Master’s degrees at Seoul National University in 1986 and 1988. He completed his PhD studies in Industrial Microbiology at the University of Tokyo in 1999, and earned a post-doctorate at the National Institutes of Health, USA. His primary research interests and laboratory studies focus on functional probiotics, especially on lactic acid bacteria and microbial metabolites.